News: Department of Dance
This year, the university honors both 2020 and 2021 recipients - and the line-up of Las Vegas luminaries couldn't be brighter!
As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's faculty experts for answers.
This dance department concert will be live-streamed on YouTube.
This dance department season opener will be live-streamed on YouTube.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Dance presents two outdoor, socially distanced performances at 11:20 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ mall, near the Lee Pascal Rose Garden and stairs to the Performing Arts Center.
New season explores movement, motion, progress, and action for a world in which all people count and belong equally.
Each weekly episode focuses on a different art theme.
The concert features choreography by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ award-winning faculty and modern dance pioneer Erick Hawkins.
Told she was too tall to be a dancer, Dolly Kelepecz-Momot ignored naysayers and went on to a successful dance career, including 37 years (so far) teaching hundreds of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students.
Start 2020 with Prokofiev's music, the Russian National Ballet, and the heartwarming story of Cinderella and the Prince, complete with her ugly step-family!
The concert is the fourth collaboration with the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Symphony Orchestra.
Join the School of Music and departments of dance and theatre at the Barrick Museum of Art on Oct. 14 for a multi-disciplinary event recognizing Research Week.